banning Haredi employment

Behadrei is reporting that there is a growing phenomenon of employers refusing to hire Haredi employees who have not served in the IDF, even if they got legal full exemptions.

Yoaz Hendel, founder of the "Miluimnikim" party aspiring to reach the Knesset in the upcoming elections whenever they will be, sent an official letter to the Board of Trade recommending that Haredim who did not serve in the IDF not be employed, and employers should instead give employment priority to those who served and who have done reserve duty.

Hendel suggests that unless the State encourages enlistment by giving people who enlist priority, the private sector will do so in its place. Hendel also says that just as on October 7th private citizens went into action filling the void left by inaction of the authorities, the private sector will also create its own carrots and sticks in the employment sector.. the State encourages not enlisting by giving them employment priority so the business sector must do it on its own. The government prefers the stability of its coalition over the legislation of a positive draft law, so the general public has to finish that work in its place.

The complaint against this is that it is explicitly against the law that calls for equal opportunity, shivyon, in the workplace. It also goes against the policy of affirmative action in which the hiring of Arabs and Haredim is prioritized. 

thoughts:

1. funny that suddenly the law referring to shivyon not being kept bothers them

2. comment #1 works both ways - f shivyon bothers you regarding the army, it should bother you reardng employment too. both sides of the Knesset regularly accuse each others, and their followers, of hypocricy in all sorts of matters when calling for policy issues, when each making the call is equally acting hypocritically.

3. I am not sure the Haredi community should be banned from employment. I get wanting them to serve, but they should also be able to obtain gainful employment (when they are no longer required to serve).

4. There are suggestions that the Haredim in turn should ban such companies that refuse to employ Haredim. That might work for retail stores and the like but it wnot help them get their foot into the hi-tech sector or other massive industries like the defense industry or whatever. They are going to ban intel or Checkpoint or Nvidia or other companies like that - how?

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